Writer Jane Espenson explains the Buffybot was introduced out of "the necessity of story", as it was "interesting to see what Spike would do with this bot. * Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers/ Buffybot Spike pulls back as he realizes it is actually Buffy she says she'll never forget what he did for her and Dawn.
Spike says he could never hurt the real Buffy, and she kisses him. Pretending to be the robot, Buffy enters the crypt and curiously asks Spike why he didn't give Glory the information she wanted. Spike rests in his crypt, beaten and bloody. Spike manages to escape through the elevator, where he finds the Scooby Gang waiting, and they fight off Glory's minions and leave the mansion.Īt the Magic Box, Willow examines the Buffybot. Meanwhile, Glory is brutally torturing Spike, who refuses to tell her the Key's location. When the Buffybot goes upstairs to change, the real Buffy enters, which clears up all the confusion. Willow sternly talks to the Buffybot (whom she mistakes for Buffy) about her sexual relationship with Spike, until realizing Glory has a captive who knows that Dawn is the Key, and the gang prepares to kill Spike before he can reveal Dawn's secret. Worried about Spike, the Buffybot leaves Xander unconscious at the crypt and goes to the Summers' residence for help. When Buffy asks "What gift?", the First Slayer tells her death is her gift. The First Slayer advises Buffy that love is at the center of all Slayers and that love will bring Buffy to her gift. Nevertheless, she decides to torture him in hopes that he knows where the Key is.īuffy wakes to find the First Slayer on the opposite side of a large fire. Glory is upset when she sees Spike, as she knows a vampire cannot be the Key. However, Glory's minions assume Spike is the Key, and knock Xander unconscious and take Spike.
Later, Xander and Anya oversee Spike and the Buffybot having sex in the cemetery, and shocked, Xander goes to confront them. She runs into Xander and Anya in a graveyard and successfully masquerades as Buffy.
While Spike is sleeping it off, the Buffybot heads out to patrol for vampires. Spike and his Buffybot pretend to fight, which inevitably leads to sex. Spike receives his Buffybot from Warren, commissioned in "I Was Made to Love You". That night, one of the minions watches the group through a window Dawn secretly takes Anya's earrings from a table. Glory orders her minions to watch the Slayer and see who is new and special in her life, as that person is likely the Key. A mountain lion appears and directs Buffy into an open desert that reminds her of her dream from "Restless." When they arrive, Giles performs a ritual to create Buffy's guide. Giles suggests he and Buffy go to a sacred location in the desert so that she can undergo a vision quest.
Spike is tortured by Glory for the Key's location, but after Buffy rescues him, she kisses him after learning he didn't betray Dawn.Īt the Summers's home after dinner, Buffy confesses to Giles that she's worried about her ability to love. When Xander and Anya see Spike and the Buffybot have sex, they mistake the robot for Buffy and stage an intervention. " Intervention" is the eighteenth episode in the fifth season of " Buffy the Vampire Slayer".īuffy goes on a spiritual quest in the desert she encounters the First Slayer, who tells her death is her gift. Episode list= List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes